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Can High ESG Ratings Help Sustain Dividend Growth?

Harvard Corporate Governance

With US inflation running at a 40-year high and a rocky first half of the year for both equity and fixed income markets globally, uncertainty is high. One possible source of returns in this environment could be dividends, particularly from those companies able to grow their dividends despite the prevailing macroeconomic headwinds.

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Share Buybacks and Executive Compensation: Assessing Key Criticisms

Harvard Corporate Governance

Wang; and Share Repurchases, Equity Issuances, and the Optimal Design of Executive Pay (discussed on the Forum here ) by Jesse M. Prior to the initial rules issued in 1982 that allowed for buybacks, companies largely had to be dependent upon dividends to allocate excess cash. Fried, and Charles C.Y.

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Accounting of Investments in the Balance Sheet

Andrew Stolz

This is a Valuation Master Class student essay by Jiten Dialani from May 14, 2018. When companies acquire a stake over another company, there are two accounting methods that could be used: cost method and equity method. The dividend received from company B out of the shareholding is recorded as income in the profit and loss account.

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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price.

Musings on Markets

The Intrinsic Value of Bank Equity I am a dabbler in all things valuation-related, and I find the process fascinating, as stories about businesses get translated into valuation inputs, and finally into value. All Equity, All the time! With most non-financial service businesses, you face a choice in how you approach valuation.

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Everything about Share Buybacks

Andrew Stolz

companies have distributed more money through buybacks than through dividends. 2018) looked at buybacks from 1998 to 2010 in 31 non-U.S. Other companies may see buybacks as a method of returning cash to shareholders that sends fewer signals to the market than would be caused by a dividend cut. Chart from Kroen (2021).

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Crash and Bailouts

Valutico

As of now, UBS is offering a dividend of USD 0.55 per common stock, with a dividend yield of 2.70%. Share Price Performance Between February 2018 and February 2020, UBS saw a decline of over 35% in its share price due to weaker profits, which worsened during the pandemic. billion using a Cost of Equity of 7.9%.

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Is BP’s new strategy – full focus on profits – viable in the long term?

Valutico

Furthermore, the company increased dividends by 10% and announced that it will buy back GBP 2.3 (USD In early 2018 the company traded at GBP 4.7 (USD by using the Discounted Cash Flow method, specifically our Flow-to-Equity approach, as well as a Trading Comparables analysis. billion worth of shares.